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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2008

2012

2017

1994

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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